John 2:14–22

¹⁴There in the Temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and pigeons, and also the moneychangers sitting at their tables. ¹⁵So he made a whip from cords and drove all the animals out of the Temple, both the sheep and the cattle; he overturned the tables of the moneychangers and scattered their coins; ¹⁶and he ordered those who sold the pigeons, “Take them out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a market place!” ^17*His disciples remembered that the scripture says, “My devotion to your house, O God, burns in me like a fire.”

¹⁸The Jewish authorities replied with a question, “What miracle can you perform to show us that you have the right to do this?”

^19*Jesus answered, “Tear down this Temple, and in three days I will build it again.”

²⁰“Are you going to build it again in three days?” they asked him. “It has taken forty-six years to build this Temple!”

²¹But the temple Jesus was speaking about was his body. ²²So when he was raised from death, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and what Jesus had said.